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NERC says Discos will compensate electricity consumers for power delivery failure

Chike Olisah by Chike Olisah
October 11, 2020
in Energy
Togo, Niger, Benin remit N2.04 billion to Nigeria for power supply, NERC postpones increase of electricity tariffs

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The Federal Government has warned power distribution companies (Discos) that they will compensate affected consumers for defaulting in service delivery if they fail to supply the required quantum of electricity under the new service reflective tariff regime.

According to a report from Punch, this disclosure was made by Sanusi Garba, the Vice Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), who doubles as a commissioner at the commission, in Abuja. He said that NERC had deployed a mechanism to monitor the Discos.

READ: FG says no electricity tariff increase for poor, vulnerable Nigerians, gives conditions for increase

NERC had revealed that all Discos committed to delivering agreed quantum of power to customers in various categories beginning from September 1, 2020, when the new service reflective tariff regime started. The commission is expected to start monitoring the Discos on a monthly basis to ensure compliance by the power firms in terms of meeting the agreement.

He said the service reflective tariff, which took effect on September 1, 2020, before it was suspended for 14 days after an agreement between the Federal Government and labour unions, would ensure that customers of distribution companies paid for what they consumed.

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Garba said, “The commission has come forward to say tariffs will be service-based, meaning that you will pay your rates in correlation with the level of service you get. Now, obviously, the commission has its own mechanism for monitoring the performance of the Discos. This is because if a Disco says you are in Band C, it means the Disco is committed to giving you between 12 to 16 hours as a minimum.

“So the role of the commission is to monitor and at the end of the month to determine which Disco has complied with their service commitment or not. And consumers will be compensated for failure to deliver on that service. We do not expect consumers to start putting gadgets to monitor electricity.”

READ: CBN moves to ring-fence Disco collections

He explained that the monitoring was on the basis of clusters, as the commission would monitor all consumers in a particular area, for instance, those on Bands A, B or C.

He admitted that NERC would not expect consumers to be the ones to monitor compliance by Discos. He said that consumers are to follow the normal processes of complaining so that the commission will step in to resolve the issue if they believe that there has been service failure.

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When told that many consumers do not have the required meters to make the right tariff payments, Garba said the government was working towards providing funding for meters.

He said, “On the issue of metering and the concern that consumers don’t have meters, I’m sure you are aware that the commission issued an order capping the amount of energy that an unmetered customer should be billed. That was designed to make all Discos to expedite the process of providing meters to all consumers because that is the way the electricity business is designed to run.”

Garba said the commission was now looking at the timelines, the rates, installation rates, specifications, etc, in order to make the story of estimated billing a thing of the past.

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Comments 4

  1. obot says:
    October 11, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    liars do it first before story

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  2. Udo says:
    October 11, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    Hope the agency of government shows some of seriousness

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  3. Chris says:
    October 12, 2020 at 7:21 am

    Both NERC and the DISCOS kill and divide

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  4. Rahman says:
    October 12, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    There are few questions to ask
    1- do we suppose to buy the meter from the discos or is for free
    2- which quarter do we lay our complain for unmeter household and exorbitant bills are given to
    3- is police force responsible to carry out the FG regulations on the amount stated for unmeter house

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